Introductory guide to Witchcraft.
Your grounding guide for the curious learner, the new witch, and the wild-hearted human.
Popular Types of Witchcraft:
📗 Green Witch:
Focuses on plants, herbs, and nature-based energy. Earth Magic, healing, and growing things with intention.
✨Hedge Witchcraft:
Spirit work, intuition, and journeying beyond the veil. Often solitary & rooted in ancestral magic.
🥄Kitchen Witchcraft:
Magic happens in daily life. This can look like tea spells or bread rituals. It involves using specific herbs and stirring intention into meals, etc. The hearth is the altar.
🌌Chaos Magic:
The tool is your belief, less about traditions & more about results, highly adaptable & intuitive. Experimental, individualistic practice.
🌟Eclectic Witchcraft:
No strict rules, pulls from many paths and systems, personal, and fluid. Think if it works, work it.
🕷Wicca:
Modern Pagan religion, has deities, ritual structure, and seasonal celebrations. Not all witches are wiccan.
✍Traditional witchcraft:
Rooted in old folk practices. often ancestral, regional, and passed through knowledge.
🔮Divination Focused Witchcraft:
Uses tarot, runes, pendulums, and other tools to access insight and hidden knowledge.
💧Elemental Witchcraft:
Works directly with the elements. Earth Air Fire Water Spirit as living forces.
🔨Common Tools & Their uses.
Wand: Used for channeling energy and directing it during rituals.
Cauldron: A vessel for burning incense, herbs, and other materials, and also for brewing potions and activating spells.
Pentacle: A disc representing a star, often used in rituals for protection and consecration.
Chalices: A stemmed cup for holding liquids like water, wine, or cider, used during rituals.
Athame: A ceremonial knife, usually with a black handle, used for ritual purposes like directing energy and creating sacred spaces.
Boline: A knife, typically with a curved blade, used for harvesting herbs and other cutting-related tasks.
Kirfane: A knife, often with a white handle, used for inscribing candles or cutting ritual cords.
Book of Shadows: A personal record of spells, rituals, and other important information.
Altar: A sacred space where rituals, offerings, and other magical work are performed.
Broom (Besom): Used to sweep and clear areas before rituals, both physically and energetically.
Candles: Used for various purposes, including spell work, focusing intention, and illuminating sacred spaces.
Salt: A purifying and protective substance, often used in cleansing rituals and spell work.
Crystals: Used for their energetic properties and healing qualities.
Mirrors: Can be used for divination (scrying) and other purposes.
Bells: Used to ward off negative energy and unwanted spirits.
Mortar & Pestle: Used to grind herbs and magical ingredients; blends the practical and the sacred
Herbs: Core to most craft. burned, brewed, buried, or scattered for purpose.
Censer: used to dispense incense
🔊Preparing Mindset & Space for Spell work:
1. Clean your space & clear the air. Physically tidy up, burn herbs, open windows, clap in corners, and move stagnant energy. Can use tools like bells, chimes etc.
2. Get Grounded. Touch Earth, skin to skin. Breathe deep, hold a stone, anchor into your body and Earth.
3. Set intention. Out loud (important) Speak what you are here to do with conviction. let your voice make it real.
4. Gather tools not with expense but with meaning. Use what resonates with you, a matchstick with your energy is much more magical than some expensive wand.
5. Cleanse your tools. Smoke, Salt, Moonlight, Sound, and even water not to purify but to charge and align.
6. Hydrate & nourish. Don’t cast on empty, water and food keep your energy stable. make sure your filled up with your drink nearby.
7. Sobriety Matters. Be clear-headed unless altered states are intentional and sacred. Clarity helps you channel, see more clearly, and keep safe. Presence = Power. Medicines from doctors and Marijuana not included.
8.Shun the self-doubt. Believe in your work. You can envision yourself getting somewhere. Act, think, and live in the headspace that you are there. Skepticism in a spell at any point weakens it. If you aren’t 10000% sure don’t do the working yet.
9. Again, see the goal as already being received. Never cast from a place of lack. Feel the results like they are in your bones.
10. Cast your Salt Circle. Gather any kind of salt like black, pink, sea, or Mortin. Stand where you want your working to happen. Just breathe. Pour salt in a full circle around you clockwise. Speak aloud or think protective words. Encompass yourself in a mass of white light if you know how. If not, we will visit this soon. If you can’t do the bonus step above, that’s fine. But this one you need to master before doing spells. Visualize the light sealing the circle as you complete it. If you need to leave, make a door and reclose the door when reentering. See memo below list on steps to open a door.
11. Setting intentions and starting your spell work. Light candles, speak clearly, move slowly. MEAN EVERY WORD. You aren’t simply asking you are shifting reality.
OH NO I HAVE TO TAKE A PEE WHAT EVER WILL I DO?
Pause Cut a Door, imagine unzipping or parting the circle where you plan to exit.
use your hand wand or athame and say: “I open this doorway with respect I shall return in Peace.”
Now step through the gap slowly and mindfully.
After you return and step back through the gap in the circle, retrace the salt line at the gap. Say “The circle is whole once more.” Then say, “My work continues protected.”
When all the work is done:
Thank Spirits, energies, and or guides.
Sweep or dissolve the circle counterclockwise and say, “The circle is open, but never broken. May the work be sealed in truth.”
Dispose of salt responsibly and respectfully. Never scatter in grass as it dehydrates and ruins Mother Earth. Rinse it away using water if possible.
If you have any questions, I have a contact page. It has every place you’ll ever find me. Alternatively, you can email me at poeaxtry@gmail.com
Much Love and good luck practicing,
Axton N. O. Mitchell
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